Just east of Dallas, the hundreds gathered at Mesquite’s Front Street Station cheered and whistled as the clouds parted in the final minutes before totality.
As the sun finally became cloaked, the crowd grew louder. They whipped off their eclipse glasses to soak in the unforgettable view of the sun’s corona, or spiky outer atmosphere, and Venus shining brilliantly off to the right.
BY MARCIA DUNN
MESQUITE, Texas –